The Old Yahoo Scam to Get Your Information

[Lindsey777]

Dear E-mail Account Owner,

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Webmail Support Team

Message flagged Wednesday, November 16, 2011 5:07 PMMessage body


Dear E-mail Account Owner,

This message comes from your (EMAIL SERVICE PROVIDER) messaging admin center to All E-mail Account owners. We are currently improving our Database and E-mail Account Center and creating more certainty for our Legal Service clients. At this moment We are deleting all Old emailaccount to create more space for new accounts.. To prevent your account from closing you will have to update it so that we will know that it's a current used account and increasing the surf on the Internet.

To prevent your Email address not to be closed down or de-activated and to enable it upgraded, you need to assist us by sending the information below to enable us upgrade ,it, so that your email account status were flect in our database as a very active, useful and legal email account.Do send to us the below information to enable us upgrade your Account, else your email account will lost in a short time.

First Name:
Last Name:
Date of Birth:
Email Address:
E-mail pass word:
Alternative Email:

WARNING!!! E-MAIL OWNERS who refuses to upgrade his or her account within Five days after notification of this update will permanently be deleted from our ,data base and can also lead to malfunctioning of the client or user's account and we will not be responsible for loosing our account.

Thanks for your understanding as it is geared towards serving you better.
Webmail Support Team
Warning Code: ID67565434.

[Dotti]

Thank you for posting this one Lindsey. As you already know, this is phishing - an attempt to get your account information and passwords from you. Of course, it really didn't come from yahoo or any other webmail provider.

Could you post the full headers to this one? In this particular case, it might be helpful.

[Lindsey777]

Unfortunately I deleted it! How do you post a full header? Please let me know because I get so much of this junk it is not even funny!

Lindsey777

[Helen Halper]

Hi Lindsey777!

To find email headers:
http://www.abika.com/Reports/Samples/em ... rguide.htm

[Nailgunner]

This is a pretty standard format for scammers and phishers all over the world. Don't forget that similar junk can appear to come from almost any site with a login: banks, professional networks such as Linkedin, Facebook, email providers, anything really, as long as it can be used to obtain information that could be used to steal your identity or just rob you directly.